Stanley Yelnats' family has a history of bad luck, so when amiscarriage of justice sends him to Camp Green Lake JuvenileDetention Centre (which isn't green and doesn't have a lake) he isnot surprised. Every day he and the other inmates are told to dig ahole, five foot wide by five foot deep, reporting anything they find.The evil warden claims that it is character building, but this is alie and Stanley must dig up the truth.
